Puzzle money-box



(No Model.)

0. LUND. PUZZLE MONEY BOX.

No. 580,137. Patented Apr. 6, 1897.

Wnamam izif UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR LUND, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PUZZLE MONEY-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,137, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed January 25, 1897. Serial No. 620,536. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR LUND, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Puzzle Money-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide in a simple and cheap form a money-box having an opening in the form of a slot for the insertion of coin, and which can be opened without breaking,but which cannot be opened by a child, and the way to open it cannot at once be detected by an older person.

The accompanying drawings represent three examples of my invention.

Figure 1 represents a central section of one example, and Fig. 2 an end view of the same; Fig. 3, a central sectional view of the second example, and Fig. 4 a top View of the same; Fig. 5 a central sectional view of the third example.

Similar letters of reference designate cor-- responding parts in all the figures.

The box A may be made of wood, metal, or other material, of any form or design, having only one opening a, which is of circular form, of larger diameter than the largest coin to be introduced into the box, this opening being intended for withdrawing the coin from the box. Ooncentrically opposite this opening there is fixedly located in the interior of the box a screw 6.

B is a stopper the head 0 of which is fitted tightly, but so as to be capable of turning within the opening a. In this stopper is a narrow slot d for the insertion of the coin edgewise, the said slot terminating outwardly in the crown of the head 0 of the stopper, and inwardly in one or both sides of the stopper, on one side only in the example Figs. 3 and 4, and in two opposite sides in the examples Figs. 1 and 5. The stopper is screw-tapped at its inner end to be screwed onto the fixed screw 2) in the box. The stopper thus constructed when inserted into the box through the opening Ct is to be screwed up tightly, with its tapped end on the point of the screw, by a screw-driver or suitable fiat instrument inserted into the outer end of its slot d, and when so inserted and screwed up it can only be removed by unscrewing it with a similar instrument. The stopper when screwed up is flush, or nearly so, with the exterior of the box, and if its head is well fitted to the opening a no joint will be visible.

In the examples Figs. 3 and 5 the box is made with a handle which makes it serve, when some money is in it, as a childs rattle.

It is obvious that instead of the screw 1) being a fixture on the box and the tapped hole for its reception being in the stopper the screw may be on-the stopper and the tappe hole in the box. 7

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A money-box having a circular opening large enough for the exit of a coin and having fitted to said opening and screwed to the interior of the box opposite said opening, a stopper in which is a coin-slot terminating outwardly in the head and inwardly in the side thereof, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination with a box in which there is a round opening, of a screw located within the box opposite to and concentric with said opening, and a stopper fitted to said opening and having in it a coin-slot running from the crown through one side thereof I and having at its inner end a screw engaging with the said screw in the box, substantially as herein described.

OSCAR LUND. Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, EDWARD VIEsER. 

